Table 1.

Medication literacy of patients with essential hypertension discharged from the hospital, Changsha, Hunan province, China, March to June 2016 (n = 132).

Items	Number of correct answers	Proportion (%)
1. Have you taken any medicine since you left the hospital?	132	100.0
2. How many medicines do you need to take every day?	73	55.3
3. Do you know the names of the medicines you are taking?	58	43.9
4. Do you know the dose of the medicine you are taking?	87	65.9
5. Do you know how often you should take the medicines?	131	99.2
6. Do you know the effects of each medicine you are taking?	128	97.0
7. Have you ever been warned about the side effects of the medicine you are taking?	22	16.7
8. Do you know the side effects of the medicines you are taking?	37	28.0
9. Do you know whom you should ask about the medicines you are taking?
Local doctors	32	24.2
Doctors who write the prescription	51	38.6
Pharmacist	6	4.5
I don't know	35	26.5
Others	8	6.1